Burning Distance Leedom-Ackerman Joanne
A modern-day Romeo and Juliet--set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling.When ten-year-old Elizabeth West's father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots…
Specifikacia Burning Distance Leedom-Ackerman Joanne
A modern-day Romeo and Juliet--set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling.When ten-year-old Elizabeth West's father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots their life in Washington, D.C., and moves to London. Her mother marries a knighted British businessman who has two children, and Elizabeth (Lizzy) and her two sisters move in with their new family.At age sixteen, while attending the American School of London, Lizzy meets and falls in love with Adil Hasan--but when Adil's father, a noted arms middleman, is deported, Lizzy and Adil are separated.Lizzy's family has also become involved with French-German industrialist Gerald Rene Wagner. Little does she know that Adil's family has ties to the man, as well. When a member of her family is murdered in Berlin under mysterious circumstances, questions surface about Wagner's